 | Bela Bates Edwards - 1858 - 516 páginas
...yet how compact the whole great effect! Listen to the following noble apostrophe. " 1802. " Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour ; England hath...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay." Who that has read " meek Walton " will not answer to the perfect truth of the following ? "WALTON'S... | |
 | Frederick William Robertson - 1858 - 376 páginas
...and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners,...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay." I will now read to you one or two passages in which Wordsworth shows the power of this life of contemplation.... | |
 | WILLIAM WORDSWOTH - 1858 - 564 páginas
...and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men : Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners,...common way, In cheerful godliness ; and yet thy heart GREAT MEN have been among us ; hands that penn'd And tongues that utter'd wisdom, bettor none : The... | |
 | William Henry Milburn - 1858 - 314 páginas
...hall and bower Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men. 0 raise us up; return to us again, And give us manners,...voice whose sound was like the sea; Pure as the naked heaven, majestic, free. Yet didst thou travel on life's common way In cheerful godliness ; and yet... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1858 - 550 páginas
...and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men : Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners,...apart : Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sen ; Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free ; So didst thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1859 - 370 páginas
...peace, our fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws. 3TV. LONDON, 1802. MILTON ! thou shouldst be living at this hour : England hath...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. xv. GKEAT men have been among us; hands that penned And tongues that uttered wisdom, — better none... | |
 | Frederick William Robertson - 1859 - 372 páginas
...and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners,...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay." I will now read to you one or two passages in which Wordsworth shows the power of this life of contemplation.... | |
 | Margaret Fuller - 1860 - 486 páginas
...best and a sufficient advertisement of each reprint: " Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour. Return to us again, And give us manners, virtue, freedom,...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay." One should have climbed to as high a point as Wordsworth to be able to review Milton, or even to view... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - 766 páginas
...gaze, He saw ; but, blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night. GRAY. Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart : Thou hadst a voice,...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. WORDSWORTH. FAH above all the poets of his own age, and, in learning, invention, ana sublimity, without... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1861 - 356 páginas
...idolatry ; and these we adore : Plain living and high thinking are no more : CCXIII THE SAME Milton ! thou shouldst be living at this hour : England hath...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. W. Wordsworth When I have borne in memory what has tamed Great nations ; how ennobling thoughts depart... | |
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MILTON ! thou should'st be living at this hour : England hath need of thee : she is a fen Of stagnant waters : altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are... 
